A New Excalibur Team is Formed

Having had a period of rest and recovery, the heroes took care of some long neglected needs. First, BC made an appointment with Radhika Joshi to get a new suit made. The two had a friendly conversation, he then left and went to patrol. Checking on Madame Traylan, her shop is entirely gone. The store is missing with the address no longer being there at all. He also, purposefully avoids spending much time near the British Museum. Adam Jenson works as a security guard and the investigation into the missing lab goes on hold. Mr. Righteous interacts with the Battersea community, meeting a local police officer and the owner of “natural Remedies” a alternative medicine store. While all of this is going on, MI-13 and Excalibur sets up a test for potential new recruits to the team. The Excalibur team had made a decision to expand into two teams, Excalibur Blue and Red. The new team would have a tryout of available and interested heroes judged by the current members and a guest, Autopsy.

The day before the test, Oberon appeared. Walking around the park, when not allowed and being a former criminal that the police had made a deal with alerted Battersea’s neighborhood police who in turn alerted Mr. Righteous. Mr. Righteous came onto the scene and tried to stop Oberon from vandalizing the park’s grass, but he refused. When Mr. Righteous made a more forceful argument and tried to prevent Oberon from ignoring him, Oberon grappled him with an enormous vine. This signaled the start of the fight and though the incoming heroes, and there were many, tried to find out what Oberon wanted and end the fight without combat, they failed continuing to attack the arrogant king. Oberon told them that he was searching for Puck who had come to the United Kingdom and taken his form. Oberon also threw up a force field to push the heroes away and continued to draw his signs on the grass of the park. Ignoring the heroes. The heroes would have none of that and cicumnavigated the force field and made it inside. They battled Oberon more and were able to take down the powerful foe. As he was carted off and shackled the television crews arrived and filmed the arrest and interviewed the heroes. Stunning speeches all around and BC became an internet meme.

The next day, the heroes took the Excalibur test. Adam Jenson and BC were accepted immediately. Hawk was the next person welcomed into the group and finally, The new hero, ______ got in after much deliberation barely pushing out the Red Guardian for the position. Immediately after forming, the team rushed into battle accompanied by Autopsy and Hooded Brawler at the London University College Hospitals. There, Mago was protecting a young woman who was possessed by an evil demon called Darzash. Monsterous and demonic forces were attacking. The heroes were able to take down the demons and met with Mago. Information was exchanged and the heroes learned he was hunting Ankrah and had found her in Seoul.

The heroes headed to Seoul to investigate and found little. They did fight a few demons let loose, but then they returned home where they took care of some personal business while setting up the schedule for the new Excalibur team. BC took his first paycheck and gave it to his old friend Ralphie also setting him up with an apartment as well as inviting a few of his other homeless friends to live there as well. As Excalibur finished up their first week as a team, Mago contacted them all and said that they had a day to prepare as he had found Ankrah laying a trap for them in Italy. mr. Righteous being a law abiding citizen, contacted his government who got permission from Italy to send their national superhero team, Excalibur, into Italy to arrest Ankrah. As the portals opened revealing the path to a forested space near the secluded Italian village, our story came to an end for the day.

Robots Vs. Superhumans

The heroes began with the run in with the police from the parts of Wyvern and B.C. Wyvern surrendered herself and went to jail. While in jail, B.C. started to hatch a plot to break her out. Before that could happen, Excalibur, primarily Mr. Righteous, and B.C. took the fight to the Glockners at their Ruby Games. Defeating the games quickly, the Glockner’s found out that Excalibur was present and ditched the place before the heroes could get much out of it. Though Mr. Righteous was able to get his pockets picked by B.C. who proceeded to use the identity of Mr. Righteous to break Wyvern out of jail.

While Wyvern was in jail, her mother visited. Wyvern proclaims she was just a trophy because of some unknown reason and claimed her mother never loved her. The wounded woman who took Nadia in from the gutter, raised her for years, educated her, and brought her back from the dead left. Then, Nadia met Mephisto who offered to fix her mistakes in return for her soul. She refused thinking she could get more out of the devil and that he didn’t actually want her soul. Getting a one hour period to think about it, she returned to Earth. Where B.C. broke her out. They escaped to eastern England where Excalibur and the police pursued them. Nearly home free, B.C. helps disguise them and they make their way to the nearest city. There, Wyvern decides to bargain with the devil. Despite the protests of the lord of hell that he did in fact want her soul and that no deal would be made without it, Wyvern tries to renegotiate the contract. Annoyed and proclaiming that she would end up in his hands eventually, Mephisto sends her back to prison. Where she escapes again.

On the run, Wyvern eventually gives up and contacts Ankrah. Deciding that working with her was the best place for her. Returning to say goodbye, Wyvern completes her turn to evil by blasting the friendly and helpful Mr. Righteous. Though the heroes are able to take Wyvern down, Ankrah intervenes and saves the girl. Depressed and downtrodden, the heroes limp into the coming days. When suddenly a number of events occur simultaneously.

This final battle, saw SHIELD pulled away by the revelation of Soviets infiltrate the Glockners. The villains shut down communications to prevent a rapid response from EDI. Staged an incident in Cork to draw Captain Britain and Meggan away. Created a plan to get BC and HHB in a fist fight on a boat. Ignored Wyvern because she turned evil and sent Adam Jenson to an alternate dimension. Excalibur was called to Leeds because of a ploy thereThen fought a massive gang war with Dreadnoughts and superhumans in downtown London. The Goblins won and reign supreme in the post-war aftermath though their presence is nowhere to be found. The gang controlling the streets and helping with rebuilding and stabilization are a new group. One other event happened, one of the bad guys released a demon in downtown that was defeated by EDI. This all occurred in May. The month of June was a period of rest and rebuilding. Little happened though the heroes took stock and made adjustments.

"Now, I am become death"

The heroes began their journey with a regular Sunday. The police presence in London was still immense and though disheartened, they resolved to protect the city further. They began with Mr. Righteous taking a journey through Excalibur Tower and meeting with Lionheart. She gave him information on gang-related activities, but his presence annoyed her enough that she sent him away.

Meanwhile, the other heroes pursued their own lives, Wyvern investigated the doctor, Otto Gunther, that supposedly had saved her. And though the name appeared on the hospital incident report, she was unable to find any nuclear scientists with that name.

B.C. left prison to the jeers of other prisoners and patrolled. Adam Jenson faced the disappearance of an entire lab of Timely Robotics. Two of the security guards on duty were killed. Adam Jenson also told his fellow secruity guards he was a superhero.

Patrols during the early days turned up something unusual, mentions of a “Ruby Games” held by the Glockner’s. The heroes investigated it further. While patrolling and trying to find out more about these games, the heroes see an explosion wrack the helicarrier. They go to investigate and fight the Supreme Soviets! Apparently, Count Nefaria is there as well. A fog covers the top of the helicarrier that causes most of the heroes to forget their mission as the Soviets escape, but not before taking down B.C. B.C. was punched through the helicarrier and as he fell, was caught and rescued by Lionheart.

In the aftermath of the battle, B.C. was the only one who remembered anything about the fight. And all other evidence was destroyed of the Soviet attack. Excalibur intended to investigate it. B.C. feeling depressed and useless, left the building to go on patrol, but being seriously injured and without body armor, was shot by some random criminals and nearly died again. His stone body shut down and he believed he died, but the next day, he revived.

From there, the heroes continued their everyday lives until the next week where an enormous gang war broke out between three of the remaining gangs. Wyvern, being herself and having learned nothing about senseless violence, lept into action attempting to prove how powerful she is. She attacked the super villains working for the gangs and battled them as the gangs fought amongst themselves from inside of cordoned police zone. The other heroes lept into the action themselves. Quick successes were the rule of the day for the heroes and they were able to defeat The Eel quickly. Wyvern murdered Feyhunter in an enormous fiery explosion of explosive fire power greater than that of a volcanic eruption along with the tops of two inhabited buildings. While B.C. and Union Jack worked to save the other people in the burning buildings, the rest of the heroes fought the gang supervillains. Poor matchups abound and the heroes struggled. First, Mr.Righteous fell. Then Wyvern. Union Jack and B.C. after rescuing the people from the fire, went in search of their friends. B.C. saved Wyvern and Union Jack went hunting for the Kidnapped Mr. Righteous who was whisked away by an A.C.E droid. B.C. told Adam Jenson to flee, but Adam Jenson chose to stay and fight. He fights on against all three A.C.E. droids, Phantom Watcher, and Granolith, and loses. He is also taken by an A.C.E. droid.

The next day, Adam Jenson and Mr. Righteous wake up in an nondescript apartment buidling. Perfectly fine and with their gear still intact. They are suspicious and go to Excalibur base for a checkup, but turn out to be perfectly fine. Confused, they go back to their daily heroics. Meanwhile, B.C. waits with Wyvern at the hospital. While the news lambasts her, thanks to SHIELD surveilance, for killing 15 people and injuring critically injuring another two dozen. The final thing the heroes find out about is the location and time of the Glockner hosted Ruby Games.

The Ram Ate his Ham

Stuff happened. London is a police state with an enormous police and SHIELD presence. The gangs have gone underground. Tempest, Dr. Rackete, and Magnetite are in town for various reasons.

The fallout of the Mandroid heist. Including the partial return of some of the Mandroid suits. Thanks to a back-up plan put in place by the police and Stark Industries. Count Nefaria has left for other locations Started investigating the gangs.

The heroes beat up the Ram. He proved to be surprisingly difficult.

Firecat robs the remnants of the Castra Nostra and practices her powers. The whole heist goes off really well and she doesn’t even get shot.

Mr. Righteous is on Excalibur, He interacts some with the heroes there while still protecting Battersea. He makes a point of demontrating his reading ability.

Discovery and frustrations in investigations. B.C. infiltrates the Triads and when he takes his chance to capture the lieutenants, but it is a miserable failure.

Miranda Prospero’s hunt for her father. Frank Prospero, real name Franco Prospero. He turned out to be a member of the Castra Nostra who tried to get out of the life. Throws her real name around and her superpowers around along with her backstory. Resulting in the Maggia threatening to kill her family unless she worked for them. She contacted B.C., but got cold feet and decided not to let him on it. B.C. ended up arrested when he assaulted the manager

Wyvern/Firecat/Nadia/Scorpion finds out about the man that rescued her. He was a doctor that her mother knew. Dr. Otto Gunther an American nuclear scientist.

Ninjas blackmail Miranda into killing a man. Powerful ninjas with names and unique costumes. She kills him, he’s a member of the Turkish Firm. One of their lieutenants.

BC and Mirdana go to jail. B.C. goes to jail to try to protect Miranda from the threats. Miranda for killing a man. She kills a higher up in the Turkish firm on the Maggia’s command. Miranda starts to think about ratting out the Maggia and their forces, but her lawyer is killed and the prisoners are send ominous messages that they do not remember.

BC gets out of jail when his case goes forward and when the police find out that the manager is a member of the Maggia.

The heroes wipe out the Acolytes with the police. Though Ankrah escapes. A fight with Dragon King occurs.

Issue 6

Death of Big

The heroes started investigating the gangs once more. B.C. and Adam Jenson planned to infiltrate the gangs starting with their lead in the Glockner Firm. They ran into some trouble when they proved themselves quite unskilled at communicating that they belonged in the criminal underworld. They were barred quite effectively for a period of time, but the gatekeeper to an underground fighting arena with an entrance in a sporting good store. Adam Jenson, frustrated with the failures of deception, knocked the gatekeeper out and marched down into the arena where friend was pitted against friend. B.C. was beaten down by Adam Jenson in a once sided fight since B.C. was unable to use his powers. After this, B.C. went to gather information while Adam Jenson challenged the toughest person in the arena. This hushes the crowd and the go to get the boss of the Glockner’s known as Levin Glockner. Adam Jenson, with a series of incredible rolls, beat Levin without a scratch. Racking in tons of cash and breaking the mobs boss invincible reputation. A little while after the fight, Levin Glockner came back over to the heroes and applauded them for their work and revealing that he knew who Adam Jenson was (Not B.C. since he was disguised.). He told them not to return to his arena after this occasion, but Adam Jenson felt he should take over the gang and told the mob boss that. When Levin Glockner refused, the two sides began to battle. Levin Glockner and a small army of mercenaries and grunts battled the heroes. Levin battled Adam Jenson nearly one on one and the battle was the opposite of the last with Levin winning with barely a scratch. A beaten and captured Adam Jenson layed at Levin’s feet and B.C. seeing defeat inevitable did not know what to do. At that point, Levin threw the body of Adam back to B.C. and told them that they were to leave.

The next major event, after Adam recovered, was to chase around the criminals. They were always a step behind however and it eventually proved to be a fatal mistake as they were too late to stop the assassination of Silver Syren. Still, the police recruited the heroes as protection against a suspected Mandroid heist. The police and heroes also staged an ambush for the gangs of London, equipping some of the transported Mandroid armors with operators. The battle was still long and hard. The gangs brought many of their own villains, including Count Nefaria who took out every single one of the PCs and a few other heroes including Captain Britain and Eryn. Despite this, the heroes were able to knock out Big and destroy all of his clones. Though the gangs were able to steal the Mandroid armors, the remaining heroes were able to run off Count Nefaria before he killed the entire party. Officer Dodge was lost in the fighting. This was a great lose because he had survived the brutal armory battle and was one of the heads of the police investigation. The heroes also lost the young mutant Pixie in the fighting.

In the end, three villains were arrested: Dragonfly, Gladiator, and Vengeance. The heroes were also able to destroy the Maggia’s robot and the remaining villains were knocked out. But thanks to Count Nefaria wiping out 70% of the police forces most of the villains were able to escape.

Through out London, there’s considerable public debate over whether this was a success since some 20 or so police officers lost their lives, 31 of the 36 Mandroid armors were stolen And most of the heroes were defeated. Though the Acolytes leader was apparently killed in the fighting afterward. Most importantly, the PCs called the Glockners’ leader telling him that Big was incapacitated. Afterwards, while conferring with officer Brent, they found out the police knew of Big’s hideout. When they arrived, they found Big dead with a note on his chest saying, “Thanks B.C.” The Glockner’s had struck.

Battle at an Underworld Auction

The heroes deal with the death of Wyvern. B.C. deals with the heavy losses he faces over and over with those he teams up with. he chooses to go consult with Madame Traylan who tells him that Wyvern’s soul is not outside of this world. The new hero, Mr. Righteous, takes notice of Wyvern’s death and advertises himself as a hero for hire. A man tries to hire him to take a picture of Madame Traylan’s business and he refuses thinking that it is shady.

B.C. has a strange dream of the woman and the candles once more. He returns to Madam Traylan’s, but she is missing. Lupin, a Welsh hero, goes to London and runs into the police who give her trouble for having a wolf as a pet. She sends her wolf away and pursues some criminals that she thinks that may be connected to the attack on Autopsy, but they are unrelated. She pursues the lead anyways thinking that the distribution of the Power Broker’s serum would be dangerous to the people of the UK. She arrives at a warehouse district and observes as the underworld arrives.

Nadia is resurrected without her most recent memories. She awakes on the couch of her mother’s house. Her mother talks to her about what’s been happening to her lately. The story she hears is substantially different from what has really happened. Nadia goes back to school and takes on the role of a good student. She associates with her friends once more and works for Dr. Klingenberg. While staying at the apartments near the school. She remembers nothing about Wyvern and forgets about her powers entirely. However, after seeing a movie with Corrine Benzley, she is shot by a mugger and though she lives, she acted surprisingly resisting the mugger and trying to take his weapon. After a brief hospital stay, she returns back to classes and confusedly wonders what she was thinking.

Meanwhile back at the underworld auction, B.C. and Mr. Righteous stumble onto the scene. They see the large number of vehicles and suspicions of the ninja standing guard outside lead them to walk straight up to the front doors and demand interest. This goes predictably badly as Lupin makes her way over to the soon to be fight scene. An enourmous battle goes down as over 45 members of the criminal underworld fight the three heroes. The Power Broker serum is distributed to five members of the crowd who take it. 4 out of the 5 including one of Big’s clones gain superhuman abilities from the serum making the battle even more difficult. The battle turns sour and Mr. Righteous is killed. B.C. escapes and Lupin tries to rescue Mr. Righteous before his demise but is shocked by his ionized body. She escapes on the back of the wolf into the night. While the remaining gang members flee the area in their vehicles.

Captain Britain arrives late and finds the poisoned and dying auctioneer. The auctioneer relays information that the The Acolytes were sponsoring the deal and that they were manufacturing the serum in a bunker in York. The heroes of London decide to go to York, but not before calling in nearly every hero they know.

The heroes arrive in York and search the city and the field that the auctioneer mentioned, but can’t find anything. After a long and exhaustive search, they call Ankrah and speak to her. They discover the bunker in York was fake and was never there to begin with. While this is going on, criminals attack and rob places all over the city of London with no heroes to stop them almost no one is caught.

Upon returning to the city as fast as they can, the heroes bicker amongst themselves a bit and then go their separate ways to investigate the crimes. B.C. leads the investigation as Mr. Righteous comes to tied to an anchor sinking to the bottom of the ocean floor. He is able to escape, but being far out at see spends nearly the next week drowning while B.C. investigates the crimes. He tracks down an empowered criminal from the auction and plays good cop bad cop with officer Simon Brent. The two of them are able to get the serum villain’ cooperation in their investigation and Officer Brent takes the commanding role though promises to share any pertinent information with B.C.

B.C. takes to the streets and makes contact with some members of the Glockner’s and is invited into one of their fight nights.

After all of this time spent in a miserable existence of near constant death and revival, Mr. Righteous washes up onto the coast of Iceland where a family takes him in and cares for him. They take him to Reykjavik where he works odd jobs and travels back to London. Upon his return, he is approached by BMC to see if he would take a position as the protector of Battersea. He accepts and is placed in a highrise suite where a stipend and suits are provided for him. He, from there, overlooks the city as our game came to a close.

Issue 4

Here’s the fourth issue of the London Times. This one may be my favorite newspaper I’ve done because the pictures lent themselves to it well and I think the little edits to the newspaper format have been building on each other to make something that seems pretty newspaper-like finally.

The Death of Wyvern and the Big Entrance of London's Underbelly

We enter a new era in our stories. The beginning of an organized crime arc. The story begins with some technical issues while we try to get our guest star, Deutschvernugen, up on Skype to play the hero Corvid. It works and Corvid and Silver Syren quickly stumble into a veritable invasion by an unknown force. The criminals are attacking the police armory and have a well established plan, a supervillain, and ered armored suits. The battle is deadly with the death of a police officer and the deaths of at least 12 criminals. After a long battle, where they learn that the supervillain is just a lieutenant and that the power armors are controlled by Warframe operatives, the police armory is destroyed which will severely weaken London police forces for the immediate future. BC is able to intimidate a grunt who tells him, while Corvid slinks off into the night, that the group was hired by the Castra Nostra and tells BC the Castra Nostras territories. The heroes plan their next move.

There is division amongst the ranks of the heroes as Silver Syren returns to the police force. Adam Jenson and BC want to investigate before the Castra Nostras trail gets cold, Wyvern wants to rest since the group has been badly wounded. So, they split up. AJ and BC find a warehouse that is servicng as a Castra Nostra hideout and after some terrible advice from Adam, BC stands in front of the front of the warehouse on stakeout. Fighting quickly ensues and Wyvern hears the gunshots via BCs communicator call. She rushes to the scene. Before she arrives, BC and Adam Jenson take down the minor crooks and investigate the warehouse. The warehouse turns out to be nearly empty, but two lieutenants and Big the boss of the Castra Nostra meet them. The fight quickly goes South on account of their bad shape and Wyvern goes down and BC is wounded. BC rushes the wounded and unconscious Wyvern away, but through some teleportation swap with a clone, Big is able to follow them and attempt to make good on the promise to kill Wyvern if they didn’t surrender. Wyvern is mortally wounded in the confrontation before BC escapes again when Big follows them to the hospital.

The fight continues on the roof of the hospital between Big and BC while inside the hospital Wyvern struggles for her life. While this fight is going on, Adam Jenson is back at the warehouse fighting a desperate and losing battle against the two lieutenants. Silver Syren is called in and that begins to turn the tide, but more before Adam Jenson goes down. He is also severely wounded and in Need of medical attention, but before he was defeated, he was able to take down a lieutenant. Silver Syren faces down the last one and is doing decently, but is racing the clock to try to save Adam. It seems as though time will run out for Adam and so Silver Syren overrides her suit draining her battery and blasting the lieutenant, but it isn’t enough!

Back on the roof of the hospital, two Mandroids have joined BC in fighting Big. They’re defeated and BC cals for backup from Eryn and Captain Britain. This prompts Big to take one final attack who h drops BC, but he heroically hangs in while Big escapes. Eryn appears and goes to check on Wyvern while Captain Britain is sent back to the warehouse. In the warehouse, Captain Britain arrives while Silver Syren has just expended her energy and swoops in grabbing both Silver Syren and the nearly dead Adam and taking them to the hospital. At the hospital, Wyvern is rushed to surgery where she is taken to the operating table of one Dr. Lucy Maxwell and in a full circle kind of way, this time, Dr. Maxwell is unable to save her adopted daughter and Wyvern dies on the table. Dr. Maxwell has no time to grieve for she instantly goes to operate on Adam Jenson and saves him from the brink of death.

Issue 3

The Crossovers

Is it only January of the new year? It’s been a month? Maybe a couple or more since I switched over to the new costume and identity. The business is going well after a slow start, the team has really come together, and we’re no longer on the run. But dear god, it feels like it was twenty years ago when we all started. Twenty years ago about 4 months ago…How did it all start? Was it in that alley way, or on the riverbank?

I’m hazy on the full details even with my enhanced memory, but I remember meeting a grumpy mage tracking some demonic entities, while I was tracking kidnappers. We met up and butted heads, but realized quickly we were on the same team. Force was his name, and he wasn’t destined to be in Cincy long.

Then came the others. More magic had descended on the Emerald of Ohio, and we fought some strange fish monster. That original team up was fun. Here I met a good man named The Fog, a brilliant inventor named Gamma (Darrell Thornton), a guy trying to learn how to be a person named Borg, and a crazy homeless guy with an intense desire for water named Waterfall.

Things started to heat up with a mysterious group of powerful villains moving about the city. We all came together to try to stop them, and nearly died at least twice facing off against them. First time was awful against a terrible assassin named Crossfire. It was this man who took Fog from us…But that was not our first loss, nor our last. We should’ve known from that first showdown against Crossfire that things were going to get worse, but being optimistic heroes we pushed ever forward.

From there we continued to do good work, but started attracting more attention. First it came from a literal vampire who had a love of magic shows named Count Nefaria, and that was our first run in with a a true demon and got our butts handed to us, and then SHIELD got involved. Which means everybody’s beloved Dictator, Dr. Doom got involved.

We lost Borg, Force, and The Fog that day to SHIELD in one form or another. Being interrogated on the hellicarrier was the last time I saw Force and Fog. Thankfully I was able to meet up with the others, but Borg was never the same. None of us were.

We were saved by the Secret Avengers, and continued to fight injustice. Crossing paths with the Eleven here and there. This was when I first met the speedster Bullet. She didn’t seem as evil as the other members of the Eleven I had met prior to this, and I started trying to free her from the path of crime. I was held up when the team went to save Fog from Crossfire and the Eleven. Which still haunts me to this day. I should’ve been there, but they told me that even with me there, we wouldn’t have been able to save him.

But there was no time to dry our tears. Instead Cincinnati erupted in fire and pain. The Eleven had made their final push for power, but some of their members had pushed too far and began to fight back alongside us, their one time foes. To make a long story short, we made it out. We fought to the last woman and man, repelling an invasion of true evil.

Wrapping everything up we vanished into the night with the Avengers. Took a trip to the true Doctor Doom and took him down, revealing that he could have stopped the demons at anytime, of course. What a douche. After getting our offered to join the Avengers, I had to decline, but they insisted I be a reserve member. I’m pretty sure just about every hero in America counts as a reserve member, but it’s still cool. I’ve got a little card and everything.

Anyway we headed back to Cincy. I reconnected with the orphanage and Riko. Got back in touch with Jonas and we moved forward with the start-up tech company, moving out of the shadow of our former internships. I managed to persuade Bullet, her brother Aegis, and her friend Frostbite to switch sides, but it didn’t stick. Then we began recruiting the Initiative heroes El Toro and Silicon to join our group since we had worked together in the past to save the city on at least two occasions.

We finally decided on a team name. The New Wave. After officially being elected team leader, I changed my identity and costume to reflect it. Now I lead the heroes of Cincinnati to battle against the crime element that still remains. But I lead it as Velocity, with my brothers and sisters in arms at my back. For those that have fallen before will not be forgotten.

Besides we don’t need to talk about the day I met Hyjinxs and Captain America, because I was also almost swallowed by a python…

All of That and More!

So, a lot happened last time. To begin with, the B.C. sought assistance about the dream he had been having. This dream of him waking up in bed with a woman’s hand put onto his chest, not made of stone, but flesh, and a soft voice asking what was wrong. He wakes up the same as he always does right as e turns to see the face of the person next to him. This time, he sees Brenden Sparks the Social Media Director for the British Museum asking to take a picture of him as he stands posed in front of the museum. Ignoring him, he visits his performer contacts to find a person who is an expert in dreams and visits Madame Traylan. An astrologist and fortuneteller in a gaudy darkened shop downtown. After paying her fee of 20 Pounds, B.C. gets a reading that tells him of various insecurities of which B.C. does not feel. This “revelation” makes him wonder if he does, in fact, feel insecure about being a homeless street performing statue.

Meanwhile, Wyvern and Cowboy are both jobless and running short on money. Wyvern looks for seasonal work and takes a job at Electronics-R-Us and sells used televisions and new cellphones, but she uses the experience and funds productively to create a series of communicators for the heroes she knows. They come out well and she plans to distribute them soon. Adam Jenson sets higher goals for himself and schedules his interview with the police department. The interview goes poorly as he has no actual qualifications for being a police officer other than being able to shot a man through the head at half a mile away. So, after being rejected, he goes out and stops a group of organized criminals loading illegal weapons off of a boat. That same evening in another part of the city Wyvern stops a small group of Russian Mafia members from harassing Robin of Robin’s Men’s Clothing. Robin has a poor opinion of Wyvern as her single-minded pursuit of one remaining mafia member allowed the other to escape and the fight caused more damage to his shop.

A few days later, B.C. has the same dream once more, but this time instead of fading away and waking up, it shifts into the view of a purple robed figure. An indescribably beautiful woman who presents four candles. Three of those candles are snuffed out quickly, but one remains for an eternity and eventually is blown out by the wind. The robed figure gestures over the candles causing them to disappear, but B.C. looks up and sees a horrifying skeletal figure in the former robes of the human woman. He wakes up in the middle of his statue performance screaming. It frightens the watchers and makes a dent in his performance money. This means he needs longer to visit Madame Traylan. However, as he leaves the British Museum Ralphie catches him and tells him that he met a costume designer for superheroes and wanted to forward her address to B.C. B.C. takes it and heads that way where he meets a small 30 something Indian woman working in the Reynolds Building. She talks to B.C. and offers to design him a suit. (She met Ralphie while working at a soup kitchen where Ralphie greatly exaggerated both B.C.’s role and his own in saving the city from Harbinger)

Wyvern continues her patrols and her work at the electronics store. She foils a minor robbery and gets a call from Corrina. Who wants to hang out. She tries to avoid Corrina, who laments the breakup of their friend group and just serves to annoy Corrina who ends the conversation quickly. Nadia calls Corrina back and makes a plan to meet her instead. The two meet up and talk, but Nadia is very gloomy as she has been through some horrible stuff lately. Meanwhile, Cowboy goes house and job hunting. Not finding anything on the first front, but does find quick employment at TriSec a security company. He’s hired there and assigned to work at a branch of Timely Robotics.

While he is on patrol, he passes near the Robin’s Men’s Clothing store that Wyvern has saved, however when B.C. passes by the store, it is aflame. The building caught on fire. Adam Jenson arrives as well. The two of them goes to work trying to fight the fire. Wyvern also on patrol, notices the fire and jumps to the scene. She lands on top of the building and tries to absorb the fire, but her power fails here. Meanwhile, on the inside, B.C. proceeds to save clothing from the store. Adam Jenson is searching for a water supply. While B.C. saves clothing, Robin blames the heroes and Wyvern in particular for causing the fire. B.C. hears a cracking noise as the fire escape starts to pull loose and goes and hold it to the wall as people flee down it. On the inside, Adam finds a firehose and starts to fight the fire. The fire department starts to arrive. On top of the building, Wyvern starts to absorb the fire and does absorbing much of the flames. Adam is able to put out the remainder as Wyvern leaves and Robin curses the heroes while being happy his building survived.

Next, B.C. males a trip back to Madame Traylan to have her decipher the next part of his dream. Madame Traylan gives B.C. a surprisingly insightful reading while simultaneously making money off him. Then as B.C. is about to leave, she warns him to beware of reptiles. B.C. takes these warnings seriously and leaves. He leaves and goes on patrol.

B.C. and Cowboy meetup on patrol when both hear loud noises from near the Brtish Museum. The two heroes arrive on the scene to see the Dragon King making his way towards the building. B.C. confronts him and Dragon King remembers B.C. from their embarrassing last encounter. Dragon King forgets about the museum and combat begins. Dragon King nearly takes B.C. down with one blow injuring him badly. B.C. calls in Wyvern and then leaps to Battersea where the city is nearly abandoned. Adam tries to fight Dragon King alone and gets beaten down and carried by his face to Battersea and flung away like a rag doll. The fight continues there for a minute while B.C. tries to escape from Dragon King who is intent on B.C. death. Wyvern arrives and fight goes poorly. B.C. flees the battlefield and leaps to the ocean. Captain Britain and Eryn arrive and help Wyvern and Adam fight Dragon King. Everyone except Eryn is defeated and Eryn is knocked away, but B.C. finds his courage and lands back to fight Dragon King once more and at the very limits of his health, he defeats Dragon King as Eryn manages to come back. B.C. and Eryn talk for a moment about B.C.’s dreams and the magical nature of Dragon King. Eryn heals the party and teleports Dragon King to prison. He leaves and B.C. and the heroes go to the dedicated news crew that videotaped the battle that devastated a block of Battersea.

The next day is Christmas so the heroes all do their Christmas activities. Wyvern visits her mother. Adam talks to his family and goes to a bar. B.C. goes caroling and goes to an orphanage.After Christmas, the heroes exchange contact information and B.C. exchanges info with Captain Britain. Wyvern builds more communicators and Adam starts working at Timely Robotics. B.C. meets with the designer, Radikha once more.

Days later in the early part of January, the heroes see St. James Park blocked off by police officers. A powerful wizard is causing havoc. The heroes go in and prepare for a fight, but B.C. is able to reason with Ithe person known as Oberon. Oberon is engaging in mayhem to aleviate boredom and despite Wyvern’s best efforts to start a brawl, B.C. convinces Oberon to go home with limited destruction.

Issue 2

The London Times Issue 2 is up. I wanted to do one for the major event and then I wanted to do one for the right before session stuff. I’ll usually try to do one that will be dated just a few days before our actualy start date.

The Bringer of Destruction

Last session ended with the Harbinger shutting down the heart of a man on the street. The Harbinger, delighted with the results of the action decided to pursue further killing in the hopes of greater understanding. LaVelle Johnson AKA The Harbinger strolled down the street attempting to kill people at random as he passed by them. The Harbinger attracted police attention, but his spaced out killings (accidental) and his random path made him difficult to track. As a police car passed by, Harbinger used his powers to kill the driver. The other officer noticed, got out of the wrecked car and tried to arrest Harbinger, but Harbinger blasted him with plasma generation. This got the further attention of the police, but Harbinger had time to escape. Harbinger decided to fly away, but his control of his powers was lacking and he stood at the crime scene for nearly a minute. This delay was just enough time for the police to arrive in force. As they did, Harbinger decided to stay and fight.

The battle began. It was long. As waves of police fought valiantly, but futilely to stop the menace of Harbinger. Harbinger showed ever increasing mastery of his powers and mastery over the environment. The tides started to shift when B.C, Adam, and Wyvern arrived on scene. Wyvern confused debated what to do. BC and Adam lept into battle against Harbinger. A moment of sorrow was had for the nameless police officers as one officer asked another to tell his wife what transpired there. Though Harbinger was able to deceive the heroes that his constructs were not controlled by him and he was a victim. Harbinger had one of his constructs damage a nearby building, but thanks to a pep talk from BC, Officer Brent, was able to save them. Through this all Wyvern proved especially amiable to his lies and tried to rescue Harbinger from the scene of the massacre/battle. As she leapt away, Captain Britain came meteorically onto the scene crashing into the fleeing pair.

Harbinger, so as not to take the damage, tried to blast himself away from the wounded Wyvern.Wyvern saw the attack at the last second and dodged out of the way. They both landed with Captain Britain facing off against both of them. He looked at Harbinger and Wyvern and told them to surrender. Wyvern started to question it and Captain Britain began to respond when Harbinger released his focus attack which erupted a beam that barrelled into Captain Britain and destroyed a 4×7 block area of London. Wyvern dodged to the only place she could reach, behind Captain Britain, and managed to survive. Captain Britain survived, barely, as well from a direct hit (260+ damage) and quickly surveyed the scene in shock as Harbinger collapsed to the ground. In shock and sorrow, Captain Britain attacked the downed Harbinger and beat him to death with Harbinger realizing in his last moments that he was a robot and never was a human. Captain Britain, victorious but defeated collapsed to the ground in anguish and wept for the dead.

After such a catastrophic event, a short time skip took place for 3 weeks. The heroes spent their time rebuilding and gathering up their lives. A new hero, sponsored by the London Police department comes onto the scene and starts to fight crime. Her name is the Silver Syren. Her and Adam run into each other while they are both fighting a number of gang members, Adam is arrested, but goes willingly. Meanwhile, B.C. has been helping to rebuild and has an ominous dream. Wyvern faces the realization that she nearly helped a mass murderer escape and buries herself in the rebuilding work.

On the 1st of December, Wyvern is meets a member of the press, a Mr. Gardner. He gives her an envelope containing information on the gang activities in the city and leaves her. She goes and investigates one area where she runs into a superhuman fight between Black wing and the hero Hawk. Not knowing Hawk or Blackwing, she attempts to stop the fight to no avail. Silver Syren flies in and with the help of a victorious Hawk arrest Wyvern, but the two embarrassingly let the real villain escape. When Silver Syren returns to the area she meets up with Adam again who has captured Blackwing. After a talking to by the police, Wyvern is released and she returns to the are the next day And meets Hawk. Hawk apologizes and offers to team up against organized crime with Wyvern. The two decide to work together while Silver Syren tries to get Adam hired on the police force and to put together a superhero team.

Part 1

The heroes of this short story are Shooting Star and Black Cat. Shooting Star, now no longer working for SHIELD after the Initiative and SHRA, is a professional racer. She is in New York City for a road rally and is renting a penthouse apartment for a few months for her stay. In her luxurious apartment, she prepares for her day and flips on the news. The news says that a robbery has taken place at the MET. Shooting Star goes to investigate. Meanwhile, Black Cat is in a cab on her way to meet the Tinkerer. She is on her way back from her ex-husband’s home when she sees Shooting Star zip past in her convertible.

At the museum, Shooting Star meets the curator and offers to help. From the curator, Shooting Star learns that the stolen object was rumored to have magical properties. She heads out and goes to a diner where a ghost was spotted in the hopes that would be the lead needed. Black Cat after meeting the Tinkerer and testing out her new gadgets decides to further test them by investigating an appearance of a ghost at a diner. She arrives at the same diner as Shooting Star and her manager. When Shooting Star asks about the ghost, it scares some of the other diners into leaving and the owner talks to her in the kitchen. After some of the story is given, further questions are interrupted by thugs attacking the waitress/owner’s wife. The two heroes defeat the thugs, but the owner convinces them to let the thugs go because they might come back if they are arrested.

The two heroes take the information from the owner and go to the docks where the boat that the ghost mentioned is pulling away. Shooting Star makes her way out to it, but then Black Cat gets in a fight with ninjas alone. The fight goes badly quickly and then the random dock worker swoops in with some lucky shots which distracts the some of the ninjas causing the remaining ones to split up. Black Cat and Oliver the Dock Worker nearly win, but are both taken down. Shooting Star returns just in time to take out the remainder of the ninjas, but Black Cat is badly wounded and dying. Black Cat asks Shooting Star to look in on her kids sometime, just to make sure they are safe. Shooting star tries to stabilize her, but it’s so late that she may not be able to be saved. 50/50 roll. The roll goes well and Black Cat lives for the paramedics to whisk her away in an ambulance.

The Death and Rebirth of Autopsy

This session begins with Autopsy captured by a long time enemy. The red-haired woman that has been hunting Ralph for a long time puts forth an ultimatum. She puts forth the option of the death of Ralph’s friends and maybe family’s death or his. Autopsy asks for her to reveal herself and to know what he had done to bring her to hunt him. The woman reveals herself. She seems to be more or less a nondescript average individual. Her name is Holly McAllister. She tells Ralph that he killed her father. She references one of Autopsy’s early battles where a vehicle thrown by him had smashed into a building. She tells Ralph that the car crushed her father. That Ralph never was faced with justice for his killing of her father. So, it falls upon her. Ralph accepts this and Holly loads a gun with a single adamantium bullet. She aims the gun right at his heart and pulls the trigger. Ralph drops to the ground limp and his blood pools out onto the cement floor and McAllister looks down, sad, as she pulls the cords from the displays.

Meanwhile, the other heroes are dealing with their own lives. B.C.‘s plan to contact Eryn works and the two have a short conversation where Eryn (Dr. Timothy Weisberg) reveals he was fighting his long time enemy Doctor Lancaster in the warehouse where B.C. was “born”. he expresses surprise that B.C. is “alive” and he offers to help B.C. He reattaches B.C.’s arm after removing the draconic curse on the limb and gives him an amulet so that the two of them can be in communication.

Wyvern has her hearing. Dr. Johnson has some science failures. BC starts patrolling. Then Hobgoblin takes down Scorpion. BC stumbles into a portal that leads to the fear dimension. He is able to escape, but a spirit follows him. The creature comes to be known as Ghosty/Murto. He turns human. They team up and BC teaches him about life. Wyvern saves people from a car wreck. Harbinger meets with Nadia when she visits him and agrees to test a blood sample for her. In the next few days, Dr. Johnson meets for coffee with Prof Klingenberg. The meeting confuses Dr. Johnson and he is disappointed in Dr. Klingenberg who leaves him in the middle of their meeting.

Then Harbinger and the other heroes see Micromax and Hobgoblin fight. All of the heroes rush that way. They’re not in time. Harbinger meets Hobgoblin on the way. They talk about making a team to take down Hobgoblin. Harbinger shows no interest because it’s not important in the grand scheme. BC, Ghosty, and Wyvern team up.

The next day, BC makes a giant Hobgoblin. Hobgoblin doesn’t appear. That same day, a Saturday, Nadia doesn’t show for the blood test with Dr. Johnson because she assumed it would be on Monday. Harbinger returns home and starts his experiments when he notices a machine. It is some sort of tracking device. However, when Harbinger finds the machine he is attacked and defeated by a well-prepared Hobgoblin. Harbinger gets a blood sample taken from him by the Hobgoblin.

Then Hobgoblin scouts out BC and Murto. The heroes spot him. Wyvern had left because she was bored. There is a fight. Hobgoblin is almost beaten but Murto is defeated and captured. BC chases after, but the Hobgoblin kidnaps Murto. While chasing after Hobgoblin Wyvern and B.C. meet up, but they’ve lost the Hobgoblin who escapes. B.C. blames Wyvern for not being there when she was needed. Meanwhile, Hobgoblin meets with his “partner” Black Cat and they use Murto’s heart to replace the destroyed one in Autopsy and revive him. Finally, Harbinger confused and alone after suffering attacks and setbacks, goes out and walks the streets when he runs into a group of people. He asks them what meaning there is to it all and when one of them gives an unsatisfying answer, Harbinger kills him.

The Life of Autopsy

Autopsy has just recently defeated Orka and has the powerful villain Orka captured. Autopsy forces Orka awake and talks to him. He tries to convince Orka to change his ways and stop being villainous. Orka and Autopsy talk about why they use their powers and motivations for their actions. Autopsy is somewhat confused and finds Orka’s arguments surprisingly convincing and Orka escapes from Autopsy fleeing back into the sea. On the way back to his building and workplace, Autopsy notices the neighbor woman who had contacted Containe Investigations to investigate Autopsy. Autopsy flies down and a short exchange where Autopsy becomes suspicious of the woman and resolves to be even stealthier when returning home. He enters his apartment where Fuuten is hanging about. The two sit around the table and eat while Ralph tells Fuuten about his battle with Orka.

A few days pass and Ralph does his work and shows his employer the location of the ship wreck where he battled Orka. Ralph is offered potential further work. After that, Autopsy decides to patrol the city and notices that a freak ice storm is brewing. He decides to investiagte that and to leave the Goblins (a new gang that he believes may be connected to the Hobgoblin) for another day. As he looks for the source of the unexplained storm and the temperature drops further and further, Autopsy decides to contact the Gaelic Guardian. When he does, he finds that the Gaelic Guardian is in battle with the Mummy Queen and two of her ice golems. Autopsy rushes to the scene of the battle and in a tense battle, is able to defeat the Mummy Queen at the final moments before her plan to steal the energy from Dublin is complete.

Ralph returns home and meets one of the tenants of his building, Cynthia Kent. Cynthia knows Fuuten as the sweet kid that lives with Ralph. She was on her way to check in on him when she ran into Ralph. After a short conversation, the two split ways and Ralph goes and teaches Fuuten Ancient Egyptian and they spend some quality time. While this is going on, Fuuten tells Ralph that Cynthia sometimes comes over and Fuuten lets her into the apartment to get her to cook lunch for him. Ralph feels a little guilty about this. Ralph also organizes a visit from his family. After a few more days, Ralph meets with his employees and talks to them about their assignments. He offers to set up Finn with his neighbor Cynthia.

Ralph does run into Cynthia, but the conversation doesn’t go as Ralph expects. He is asked out on a date that he accepts. Afterwards, he talks to Fuuten about what his powers are and they decide to test his powers. The demonstration of powers in Ralph’s apartment goes poorly and Fuuten destroys some stuff and runs through a wall. Cynthia, because of this, believes Fuuten might be a mutant. The next day, Fuuten and Ralph go to the Cork Academy to see if Fuuten can be enrolled there. Seth tells them Fuuten can’t go there because he’s only 6 and all of the other students are at least 12. That evening, Ralph goes on patrol and sees cars that have been broken into. A suspicious tow truck is going by and starts to hook up to a random car. The tow truck driver, when talked to by Autopsy, shoots him with a gas attack that makes him pass out.

Later, Autopsy wakes up in a steel and cement room. His arms pinned to the ground with power dampening manacles that are attached to cables. On the other side of the room is a glass window. The other wall has video displays that show video tapes of Ralph’s friends and loved ones. He looks back to the window where he sees a mysterious woman walk forward nearly into view. It’s the same woman from before.

The Bulwark of the British Museum: B.C.

Mona and Li-Rogg decide to return to space. The deposited Harbinger and Scorpion are left in London to reorganize their lives. A new hero also jumps onto the scene. A living statue B.C. becomes involved in the London superhuman community. He is only a recent addition to London and is closely tied to the British Museum. While B.C. is making his rounds and interacting with people near the British Museum, Scorpion and Harbinger are dealing with the University College London and both of their hearings. Lavelle Johnson being a well-known and established scientist has his hearing quickly. It goes well, despite his long and unexplained absence. The research which he discovered on a far-off alien planet is presented to the jury and the worth of Dr. Johnson and his research keeps him in his position. Dr. Johnson is somewhat upset that he wasn’t given the proper respect during his hearing. Meahwhile Nadia Maxwell meets her friends at a bar in London. She finds that Reginald had left University College and moved to Oxford. She also has a meeting with her mother that goes surprisingly well considering her issues with her school. Nadia also turns over the Power Broker serum. Those two heroes continue with their lives, dealing with school and the changes resulting from their last trip.

Meanwhile, B.C. and Scorpion stumble upon a murder scene. Scorpion tries to save the shot man, but he’s dead upon arrival at the hospital. Meanwhile, B.C. finds an address left at the crime scene. He walks to the location and waits for someone to answer him. He eventually notices a vehicle pull into the back and B.C. goes to investigate. He gets into a brawl and murders two gangsters in a garage. B.C. leaves and returns back to his area near the British Museum. A few days later, Lavelle Johnson is contacted by Science Advancement Institute (SAI) and offered a position at a place that would “respect him”. Not long after LaVelle Johnson and Nadia Maxwell confer. Nadia convinces LaVelle to go on patrol. On this patrol, the two pass near the British Museum where they see B.C. shouting at something in the sky. B.C. is able to see some sort of yellow glowing figure that flies straight into the British Museum. As the heroes approach the museum, a bright light explodes forth from the interior and the heroes rush towards the structure.

B.C. runs to the door and busts through with his powers while Harbinger and Scorpion debate the ethics of busting into the museum. B.C. enters the museum and sees the man made of yellow energy once more standing next to a large man who declares himself “Dragon King”. B.C. speaks to both of them which interests the energy being because he had assumed no one could see him. The energy man tells Dragon King to kill B.C. and flies off. Dragon king, overconfident, flicks B.C. away and marches through the front wall of the museum. At this point, Harbinger and Scorpion notice the Dragon King and a brawl begins. Harbinger uses all of his ability in a desperate attempt to take out Dragon King instantaneously which fails taking Harbinger out of the fight. Scorpion and B.C. fight the Dragon King, but the fight isn’t going well. As they are on the verge of a loss, B.C. creates an illusion of Captain Britain who threatens and intimidates Dragon King into fleeing. B.C. sends the illusion to continue to harass Dragon King as he flees, but Dragon King figures out its nature as an illusion. Humilated and surrounded by the police, Dragon King flees to return at a later time. After the battle, Scorpion, Harbinger, and B.C. are introduced with an exchange of information. Harbinger, seeing B.C.’s serious injuries recommends he see a doctor. Maybe Dr. LaVelle Johnson. The heroes then split up.

The heroes continue to deal with their daily lives. Harbinger recovers from the damage of stretching his power beyond their limits. He also refuses to go on patrol with Scorpion any longer. Scorpion runs into a situation at the Thames River where a meteorite holding some strange person crashes into the river. The person or alien attacks Scorpion and after a quick battle is defeated and taken to Dr. Johnson’s home. Dr. Johnson and Scorpion take the captive to his lab and leave momentarily and return early in the morning as classes begin. On the way in, they meet B.C. who is standing near Dr. Johnson’s lab. B.C. had journeyed to the labs because he was examining the stolen exhibit area at the British Museum when he started to suffer from scaly growths on his marble arm. Meanwhile, he started to feel ill with a cough. All unusual for a man made of marble. So, Dr. Johnson decided to examine him. Surprisingly, B.C. turned out to be a solid chunk of marble that should be unable to get sick. Dr. Johnson decides to cut off his arm since he had demonstrated some ability to regenerate and that seemed to be the best way to prevent the spreading of the scale like growth. Though B.C.‘s arm didn’t grow back quickly, he still decided to seek out what had happened at the museum. He leaves and while LaVelle and Nadia are discussing B.C., the person from the meteorite escaped. After some research at the local library, he goes down to Trafalgar Square and creates an illusion calling for Eryn a “so-called mage” who worked with X-Force.

Gravitation Takes the Throne

Our heroes, Dialectic, Harbinger, Scorpion, Li-Rogg, Mona T’zara are near the center of the universe. Dialectic awakes in the middle of the night because of a strange summons. The stone tablet that Li-Rogg has been carrying is calling to him. It whisks him off into a strange space and a being called Gravitation is there. She speaks to Dialectic informing a little about the death of her father Eternity and the collapse of reality. She also asks about the location of Dr. Tomorrow and saying that he was essential to guarantee success in the mission.

They approach the center and their ship picks up huge energy signatures beyond what their ship can register. As they continue to approach the energy signatures they see immense figures of incredible power. The heroes recognize Galactus amongst other beings of similar ability. Energy emanates from them in such incredible waves that it threatens to destroy the ship. Harbinger and Dialectic combine their talents and push themselves to their limits to shield the ship. Their efforts hold long enough for them to get past, but their strength fades and their ship is damaged severely and the engines catch fire. After emergency repairs are completed, the heroes move on. Next, they approach another entity of immense power. This one is the Silver Surfer. A quick conversation ensues between the heroes, Gravitation, and the Silver Surfer. The Silver Surfer joins with the heroes to face off against Gravitation’s brother “Entropy” and prevent him from taking the position as Eternity.

The heroes travel to the center of the universe where their sensors and powers detect the death of Explosion. They continue to fly deeper into the fray when a wave of energy overwhelms the ship and the shields and destroys the ship instantaneously. The heroes somehow survive though. The rules of reality are warped and the heroes move on to what the area around Entropy. As they approach they notice the warps in reality and see that sections of worlds are floating through. Monsters and ships all are visible. The heroes land on a small floating chunk of land. There they hear an ominous warning from Entropy to turn back and use their final moments wisely. Then Entropy creates a number of monsters that attack the heroes. They make quick work of them, but when they do, the monsters turn into black mist which threatens to destroy the heroes. They escape from the floating island and arrive at another piece of floating earth.

This floating rock quickly comes under attack by an armada of alien ships. The heroes are barely able to dodge the attacks and leap away. As they plummet, an enormous serpentine dragon comes up from below. It shoots forth beams of fire from its eyes that are so powerful that they are even able to hurt the flame manipulating hero Scorpion. As the monster comes up, the Dialectic creates a disk-like platform for everyone to gather upon where they surround Mona who whisks them away via teleportation at the last moment before the massive dragon swallows the disk. The heroes move forward once more and arrive up on another set of islands locked together with chains.

From the ether the shape of Entropy forms. He reaches down and shapes from the ground four figures. Thanos, Stellianos, Hulk, and King Arthur. The heroes fight against these mimics. The duplicates seem to have all of the memories, powers, and abilities of the four individuals. The heroes are able to defeat the duplicates, but they nearly destroy all of the heroes. As they are taking a brief breath after defeating them, Entropy appears from above and slides his hand across the ground and starts to reassemble the Hulk, Thanos, Stellianos, and King Arthur. Our heroes panic, knowing they can not defeat them again, when Harbinger and Dialectic move into the glowing sigils and disappear. The other heroes are left behind and fight the duplicates once more, but the battle goes against them and they start to lose. Death seems immenient. On the other side, they enter a space of white nothingness that continues forever.

Dialectic and Harbinger, both on their last legs, scan the area. They see Entropy and Gravitation come into view suddenly, and they begin to fight. Entropy and Gravitation use the sun, moons, galaxies, black holes, and more of the universe to pummel each other. While this is going on above them, Harbinger empowers Dialectic with greater strength and agility with his catalytic conversion power. Dialectic rushes forward and pushes towards the glowing gold orb that pulsates with power. Dialectic runs a gauntlet of dangerous challenges and makes it to the pulsing heart of the universe and reappears in a new space where they talk to another entity who seems to know much about them. After a few minutes, the heroes are whisked away and reappear with their ship intact in Alberta, Canada.

Instructor Justice, Spider-Man, and Ms. Amazing in a Short Adventure

Ms. Amazing and the other new students at the Cork Academy go through the last bit of their introductory tasks. Ms. Amazing, for example, chooses extracurriculars and starts going to classes. Ms. Amazing is encouraged to join the hero club at the school thanks to her reputation as the archrival of the Weather Master. Ms. Amazing refuses and tells on the other students heroic activities in Cork. Later during a training session with her squad, Danielle Moonstar sends Ms. Amazing into an individual training session for being disrespectful. However, the Danger Room robots are taken control and escape the Academy. The robots rush towards Cork and the instructors and the other students leap into action to keep them from the city. Bradford Blandon and Ms. Amazing follow the remainder of the robots to Cork where they team up with Spider-Man and fight the robots. As the robots make their way towards the cost they meet up with Flamestrike a new supervillain. She leads them towards the superhuman prison near the cost. She seems to be planning a jailbreak. Ms. Amazing turns and runs back to the Academy as the villain approaches the prison. Partly to get help and partly out of fear. Spider-man and Justice Instructor are able to defeat the villain and wrap up the final of the robots.

The Revenge of the Weather Master

New Students show up at the Cork Academy. Six new students arrive late to the school year. They are Ms. Amazing, Wild Woman, Bright Opal, Warp Dragon, Chaska, and Featherweight. They were all recruited or came to the school for help with their mutant powers. After tests and placements for their teams and classes, the group took a power test proctored by Frank Bastion, Bradford Blandon, Professor Rakete, and Dr. Tomorrow. After the tests and their first day of school, Ms. Amazing was attacked in her room by her nemesis the Weather Master. The school was defended and the attack defeated, but not before the Weather Master could kidnap Ms. Amazing. He took her to a bridge over the bay in Cork and told her that this is what happens to those who challenge him and pushed her off to her death. At the last moment, before Ms. Amazing hit the water, Danielle Moonstar flew in on her pegasus and saved her. taking her back to the school.

Vs. Horrors and the Final Leg of the Journey

The heroes step into the strange seemingly abandoned mining vessel. The heroes (Li-Rogg, Dialectic, and Scorpion) faced terror and nightmares made real in this latest adventure. As mentioned in the last adventure log, something was trapping ships in the space around the abandoned mining vessel. The heroes went to investigate the disturbance and place bombs into key points of the ship. However, the heroes found that the halls of the ship shifted and made no sense. They would travel from place to place and arrive in nonsensical locations. They planted their bombs in the center of the ship, but they decided to blow one bomb as a test when the readings from their sensors were showing it moving. They planted a second and after a trek through bleeding hallways and past skeletons being manipulated by intestine like worms, made their way to the engineering room.

Upon entering the room, they looked back and the former hallway had been replaced with a deep blackness. When they opened the doors, black arms of shadow reached for them and the terror that crept out of them damaged Scorpions psyche. They latched on to her and nearly pulled her into the doorway, but Dialetic was able to rescue her. After exploring the engineering room for a few moments, they decided to open the door on the far side, but a similar set of black hands shot out and were able to grab a hold of Scorpion once more and again, nearly dragged her away. Dialectic was able to rescue her again, but the Psyche damage was so great at this point, that she was nearly insane. When Scorpion was dragged into the portal the second time, she glimpsed some terrible dark cloaked stranger who was approaching her.

The two heroes were eventually able to escape the room but were separated when they were attacked again and Scorpion was taken by one of the creatures briefly. She escaped by blasting the monster and she tried to make her way back to Dialectic, but instead made her way to the flight deck where she planted the final bomb. Dialectic meanwhile made his way around the ship and rescued a SWORD soldier. Finally, the hero known as Harbinger entered the ship to look for his three missing companions. He was quickly lost in the ever changing structure. He was nearly taken by a set of black hands when Li-Rogg saved him. Li-Rogg and Harbinger journeyed into the ship. The other heroes come together fortuitously in front of a set of monstrous doors.

While the assembled heroes meet, the mentally weakened members of the group turn to run. The SHIELD Agent and Harbinger flee from the overwhelming sense of dread they feel. As they do, Harbinger runs into the outstretched arms, from the sickening human-like entity that has been pursuing the group. He releases his creatures from inside of his cloak and sends forth long massive arms of darkness to capture Harbinger. Harbinger dodges underneath them at the last second and then the monster releases a wave of dark blood that nearly engulfs Harbinger who slips into an alcove in the wall. Saved from the creature, the wall starts to devour him when Li-Rogg saves him again.

Returning to the group for safety, the heroes knock out the panicked SWORD agent who can not be reasoned with and enter the room. Inside is the flayed victims of some horrible ritual. Their chests cut open and their ribs pulled out to the sides. In the center of the room is some sort of ritual circle with a mass of guts and organs laid in the center. As the group steps further into the room, the terrible monster appears and attacks them. The group attacks the ritual hoping it would send away the monster, but the creature protected it. Then Harbinger released a blast of energy so great that it sent the monster reeling and forced it away. Harbinger collapses exhausted and hurt from the effort, but the heroes make the most of the time by destroying the weakened force field. As they move to attack the ritual, the monster returns, and attacks again. It’s minions and it hurt and rip at the heroes, but they are able to succeed and Li-Rogg destroys the ritual.Upon the destruction of the ritual, the creature is pulled back y monstrous arms into another dimension and the ship returns to normal.

The heroes say their good byes to the SWORD agents and head into the stars. The heroes make two stops on planets in far off galaxies. The first of which boasts nothing much in the way of adventures or anything much of interest to the heroes.

Leaving Earth But Not the Solar System

The heroes leave Earth but not before Scorpion meets some members of the EDI and Dialectic gets a robot. As they head to exit the solar system, some mysterious happenings causes their engines to shut down and they drift near Jupiter. Their the heroes meet up with a SWORD ship and crew who were sent out to investigate a mysterious mining ship that was not responding to transmissions. The heroes find out from SWORD that the mining ship had claimed the lives of three boarding crews or somehow captured them. SWORD had decided to detonate the ship, but were struggling with a plan when the heroes docked on SWORDs ship and volunteered to help.

Introducing the Harbinger!

This latest iteration of our heroes adventures begins with Scorpion recovering from her stay in the hospital, courtesy of Senyaka. She gets out of the hospital and returns to Reginald’s apartment. Reginald and Nadia’s relationship is expanded on in this chapter and we find that they’re a couple. Reginald develops as a serious character and Nadia’s fights against Senyaka and her pursuit of a superhuman tomorrow strains her relationships and her studies at her university. She enlists the help of the oblivious professor Dr. LaVelle Johnson AKAHarbinger. The two of them are able to make some insights into the nature of the serum, but Dr. Johnson enlists the help of a colleague, Dr. Mavise Klingenberg. Dr. Klingenberg is also the professor that Nadia is a graduate assistant for. She makes some astute observations that call into question the ethics of Nadia’s story and requests a meeting with her. The meeting goes poorly when Nadia decides to lie to Dr. Klingenberg and Klingenberg doesn’t believe her. Nadia’s in trouble for her work on the serum, hiding it, and possession of something that will likely kill whoever ingests it, along with it being highly illegal of course.

In the field of superheroics, the Scorpion does her regular patrols and harasses some Goblin gang members. They mostly just try to ignore her, but the Scorpion forces them to fight her and then beats them up while getting in trouble with the cops. She also happens to stumble upon Harbinger a few times and deduces his identity as LaVelle Johnson. Eventually, she thinks she stumbles upon a Goblin crime scene, but is getting beaten badly by a number of Goblin gangsters. Then Harbinger intervenes and breaks up the fight. When the police come, they try to arrest him. Harbinger escapes and is tracked down by Scorpion who confronts him as his civilian identity. He just pretends not to know what she’s talking about and Scorpion is arrested when some police officers arrive on the scene.

In Jail, Scorpion calls Mona and has her break her out. Mona recruits Scorpion and takes her to LaVelle Johnson where the Scorpion is very aggressive to Dr. Johnson. Mona recruits Dr. Johnson as well and gives Nadia some life advice while giving some of her own backstory. She reveals to the two new members of the group that she was a “terrorist” on Raxa III because her species have had their homeworld taken from them and the members of her species on Raxa III have been forced for an interplanetary mafia. So, Mona staged a coup and detonated thousands of their vehicles before leaving the planet. She tells the story so that Nadia would stop giving up on things prematurely and whining about how bad things were.

Senyaka Gets Taken Down

Dialectic and Scorpion team up. Scorpion has made some unpleasant acquaintances. Senyaka attacks her university and she, scared, calls the heroes. She is only able to reach Dialectic. Dialectic and Scorpion also meet up with an unknown hero, Ms. Amazing. The three come up with a plan, thanks to Ms. Amazing’s magic, to find Senyaka or his organization. They track down some sort of deal between two gangs in a hotel. They bust in and wreck the bad guys. They find that the two groups were trading cash for the Power Broker’s serum. The heroes argue over the use of the serum, but before any decision is made, Li-Rogg arrives on the scene and the heroes forget about the serum. The heroes get to see how Li-Rogg rolls. It’s pretty brutal. He snatches a dude off the street and electrocutes and beats on him till he spills a lead and from there they just beat on random members of the Acolytes till they are able to find Senyaka’s base. Where they face him down in his underground base. They are able to beat him though Scorpion nearly dies. After Senyaka is defeated, the groups splits up and the weekend comes to the end.

Finally, the evening after fighting Senyaka, Mona teleports to Li-Rogg and Dialectic and takes them to Hamburg to talk about what to do about Dr. Tomorrow

Honorable mentions: Ms. Amazing won a martial arts tournament. Dialectic made some new friends. Scorpion worked on her superhuman genetics research.

The Heroes Continue Their Stay on Earth

In Europe, the heroes are still waiting for their ship to be finished. A little less than a week has passed. Our newest hero, Nadia, who’s going by Scorpion discovered the hideout of the Acolytes. The drawn out fight didn’t go well for the heroes and the were forced to retreat. Also, Dr. Tomorrow angered Li-Rogg and Li-Rogg attacked the defensive Dr. Tomorrow who did not fight back. Before Li-Rogg could do any serious damage, Banshee, stopped the fight.

Only Relatively Though

The heroes are able to enjoy their time taking care of loose ends while they are on Earth. The Question takes his leave from the group and heads back to the United States. The heroes ship is taken to Hamburg, Germany where Stellianos of the EDI works on it. Meanwhile, Dialectic returns to Hong Kong and gathers his things and gets a hold of his contacts. He gets one person to make a superhero costume for him. He contacts his order to keep them in touch and he makes a trade with his contacts in the Chinese Communist party to move Zugou de Houwei from the Hong Kong airport to the mainland. However, the two come into conflict with Captain UK. After a brief skirmish, they are able to escape, but not without suffering injuries. He then returns to the group in the United Kingdom.

In the UK, Mona and Dr. Tomorrow explore Earth culture. Dr. Tomorrow annoys Mona by continuously lying to her and she leaves him. They do meet up with a young woman, Nadia (Maybe?) who is a superhero as well. The three met when they came into conflict with a supervillain, Blackwing. Who they defeat without issue. Mona is able to track her down and the two wander around the city. Nadia lso comes across some criminal activities in her nightly patrol. She is overwhelmed by them though and escapes while alerting the police. Dr. Tomorrow also contacts Seth and the two talk about Dr. Tomorrow’s past. Seth also offers Dr. Tomorrow a temporary position at his school. Dr. Tomorrow accepts and takes a tour of the place.

When the group forms up again in Cambridge, they are alerted as a supervillain of enormous strength and invulnerability breaks into a Cambridge University lab and steals some equipment. The group, and their new friend are able to defeat the criminal with little difficulty.

The Hulk and the Heroes Return to Earth

The heroes and The Hulk land on the moon. After last session and the ships crashed into each other both landed on the moon. Inhuman guards escorted Dialectic, Dr. Tomorrow, and Li-Rogg to the Inhuman city of Attilan. They walk through the city and the guards lead them into the palace of the Inhuman royal family. The heroes walk into the audience room and they see Black Bolt, Medusa, Triton, and Karnak. The heroes, of course, do not recognize or know any of the Inhumans. Medusa speaks to them and questions them on their intentions and why they’ve landed in Inhuman territory. Also, why there is a member of the Kree with them. She questions them if Li-Rogg is a member of the Kree forces on the moon. As the conversation continues, Black Bolt attention is suddenly shifted to a far-off sound that he and one of the heroes hear. He stops the conversation, has Medusa send the heroes back to their ship, and leaves the throne room stopping anyone from following him. The heroes are directed to wait till he has descended and are escorted out by Karnak. Outside of the throne room, they see something that is a surprise to them all. The Hulk. He challenges Black Bolt to a fight for vengeance and the two of them move off to the distance near the heroes new ship.

The group chases after them and finds the Warbound loitering around the ship. Waiting and watching. Black Bolt and the Hulk quickly begin to fight and Black Bolt displays a number of abilities that have no effect on the Hulk. Until the Hulk goads Black Bolt into using his voice. His voice injures the Hulk and the group stays back and observes the battle. It keeps going and the Hulk presses on against Black Bolt and though grievously injured, is able to beat him. As the Hulk is about to finish Black Bolt off, Dr. Tomorrow saves him by moving him back with his magnetism. At this moment, the Inhuman forces attack the Hulk and take Black Bolt away from him. Knocking the Hulk off of the moon and towards Earth in a moment of heroism. The group starts a fight with the Warbound deciding that the Hulk shouldn’t have any reinforcements in his war against Earth. The battle is long and hard. The combatants closely matched, but in the end, the fight goes against the heroes and they are able to retreat barely. The Warbound are also injured and elect to pursue Hulk instead of trying to finish the battle. After our heroes ship is repaired, they also take off towards Earth, but with the intention to get aid in making it to the center of the universe.

As they approach Earth, they are given permission to enter and find that many of the people that they were planning on contacting for help have gone missing thanks to the Hulk’s attacks. They eventually decide on meeting up with Seth and Stellianos who Dr. Tomorrow’s SHIELD contact is able to get them in touch with. Stellianos promises to help them out and asks them for their help against the Hulk. The heroes are nervous, but agree to it and rush to Ireland and meetup with Stellianos and briefly go over the plan to drain the Hulk of energy before the make contact with the Hulk who is fighting at the Cork Academy. When they arrive, the Hulk has just defeated the final defender of the Xavier Academy, The Humbler, and is on his way to his ship with the unconscious Seth. The Warbound are waiting at the ship for the Hulk. The heroes and the European Defense Initiative spring into action with King Arthur, Stellianos, Dialectic, and Dr. Tomorrow taking on the Hulk as the other members of the EDI fight his warbound.

Those Poor Gladiators. They Never Stood a Chance

In this session, we had a series of combats against gladiators on the planet Danti. The heroes competed in a number of battles and were able to overcome nearly all of their opponents. This gave them enough funding to purchase a powerful ship on Danti’s notoriously open markets. After about two weeks of minor repairs and upgrades to the new ship (Including refinishing Dr. Tomorrow’s room into an English manor style room, the heroes took off. They were not far from the center of the Shiar Empire and traveled towards home. The trip took a while and, thanks to good decisions in their preparations, was uneventful. There were some appearances of ruptures in space, but the heroes were easily able to avoid them.

The group made the jump back into the Milky Way and the Shiar portal landed them close to Earth. As they made their final approach to Earth and were passing the orbit for Mars, a rocket-like ship from Sakaar scrapped past them, damaging their new ship. They made an emergency landing, at the same time the mysterious ship crash landed, in the Blue Area of the Moon. Immediately, they were approached by four Inhuman guards who told them “The King of the Inhuman’s, Black Bolt, demands your presence.”